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Pushing It: Photographing Cathedrals to the Urban Spirit
With his series of three photographs, Christopher Holt discovers the surreal and profound in urban concrete and steel. Using digital techniques he works with the photos to create these cathedrals to the human spirit. [Read more]
Leaving the Dishes
A mother discovered that sometimes you have to throw all caution and perfectionism to the wind and head out to the fair. The dishes, as they say, aren't going anywhere. [Read more]
The Effect of Slowing Down
At a job today, a great thought came to me: I bring my training ground with me wherever I go and in whatever I do. The sweet science is an applied science, after all. To bring my skills to light is what I am here to do. So step by step, as I cleaned, I thought my way into a new way of thinking. [Read more]
Overcoming Our Pain One Step At A Time
If you have endured some form of physical pain for an extended period, then you know how much it can affect your outlook on life. Physical pain can weaken our resolve and dampen our spirits. However, it does not have to rule our lives. [Read more]
The Other Side of Me: Push No More
Thriving On the Other Side learns that though she has pushed through every other blockade or barrier in her life, it’s time to flow with her own path and push no more. [Read more]
What’s Your Perfect Lunch?
What’s your idea of the perfect lunch? Mike Sakasegawa ponders the significance of the difference between his answer and his wife’s. Why is there such a difference between the sexes? [Read more]
What Does “Being Healthy” Truly Mean?
What will it take for us to start loving ourselves enough to realize that we are worth the investment of time, energy and money in order to truly be healthy in a complete and holistic way? Sadly, a lot of people would rather invest in the instant gratification of a daily $5 latte than invest in their actual emotional well being. [Read more]
The Little Gift
Finding the right use for "that little gift" is best left to procrastinators. [Read more]
Welcome to Kabul, Home of the Taliban Swimming Pool: Part Three
As a civilian helicopter pilot in Kabul, Allan Cram tours the city and quickly discovers that even something as innocent as a swimming pool can be put to horrific uses in the hands of people like the Taliban. [Read more]
Girl Meets Canada: Meh-nitoba
The ongoing story of a girl and her van on an epic journey across Canada. Day 38 (Wed, June 16th) Okay, that title isn’t fair. Manitoba isn’t all meh. But I thought it was funny, so I’m using it. I don’t know what I was expecting... [Read more]
So, What’s Your Good News For The Day?
Phyllis Wilson tried a little experiment on her Facebook and Twitter accounts recently where she posted the comment “Okay need some good news, what's your good news for the day?” [Read more]
The House Call
A doctor philosophizes a little on his way to a house call to Mrs. Cambden’s trailer which he's been visiting for almost 19 years, ever since he was a fledgling doc, just starting practice in rural Nova Scotia. [Read more]
The Other Side of Me: Walking a Divine Path
Thriving On the Other Side remembers how Angels would appear, wrapping her in their warmth and helping her survive the darkest of days ... [Read more]
Jammin The Blues
“The blues, to me, is like, being very sad, very sick…or in the church, being very happy. There’s two kinds of blues: there’s happy blues, and there’s sad blues. I don’t think I ever sing the same way twice. I don’t... [Read more]
Seven Problem Solving Tips
Have you ever tried solving a mind teaser? For instance, move only three toothpicks from a tic-tac-toe type arrangement in order to make three identical squares. You ponder this endlessly and finally, when the answer comes to you, you wonder how you didn’t... [Read more]
I Know Where You Are And What You’re Thinking
Intel Labs is busy designing processors which can read human thought and they already have a working prototype. Life as a human, my friends, is taking a turn. What's next? Our dreams? [Read more]
Tarmac Meditations # 23 – Just Go
Michael Lebowitz reflects on running, recovery and life in the popular Tarmac Meditations series of diary entries. [Read more]
Chasing the Elusive Vincy Parrots
In search of the St. Vincent parrot, Bruce Kemp discovers that a hike in the rain forest can be so much more than ticking those little boxes on that 'life list' you so carefully put together. [Read more]
The Beauty of Deception
What's so striking about the art of Arthur Davies is how little they give us a hint of either the turmoil of the times, or the psychological and actual turmoil of his personal life. Filled with young, beautiful women, perfected landscapes, and sensuous colors, Davies' paintings seem almost completely unscathed, as if he was able to channel the paranoid, guilt ridden tenor of his life into a collection of visual dreamscapes beckoning us to come and rest in. [Read more]
All Collies Great and Small
Love me, love my dog Lassie. Julia McLean offers a hilarious and inspiring look at life with Border Collies. [Read more]
